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<h1 align="center"><span class="pagetitle">CSS 2.1</span><br>
<font size=2>= <span class="sitetitle">Index DOT Html/Css</span> by <a href="../misc/email.htm">Brian Wilson</a> =</font></h1>

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<big><b class="mainheading">Statistics</b></big>
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<dt><b class="subheading">Authors:</b> Bert Bos, Tantek &Ccedil;elik, Ian Hickson, H&aring;kon Lie
<dt><b class="subheading">Specifications</b>
    <dd>Documentation - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/</a>
<dt><b class="subheading">Timeline:</b>
    <dd>- First public working draft of CSS 2.1 released - August 2002
    <dd>- Second working draft of CSS 2.1 released - January 2003
    <dd>- Last Call working draft of CSS 2.1 released - September 2003
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<big><b class="mainheading">Almost there</b></big>
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Now that browsers support the majority of CSS2, certain portions of its feature
set remain unimplemented. Taking a page from the HTML 3.2 recommendation, CSS 2.1
aims to accomplish a similar goal: to capture the current common browser behavior 
with regards to CSS. As such, it attempts to capture the common <em><b>subset</b></em>
of CSS2 that most browsers implement (perhaps it might be better to call it 
CSS 1.9? ;-}) Features like font descriptors are gone entirely from this CSS 
version, as are many properties that have never really been implemented (like 
'text-shadow', and 'font-stretch'.)
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Interesting to note, that the properties and features from CSS2 that are not in 
CSS 2.1 <em><b>are</b></em> still planned for inclusion in CSS3.
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